Jason Day starts well at American Express
Jason Day – file photo courtesy of Australian Golf Media
The American Express Championship is not an event that has featured often on the schedule of Jason Day until recently, but following an impressive start to the event in La Quinta this week it might be somewhere he plays more regularly from now on.
Day finds himself two of the lead through 36 holes of the tournament played over three courses.
After an opening round of 64 over the La Quinta Country Club on day one, Day negotiated the Nicklaus Tournament course in 66 today and finds himself in a share of 6th place and two behind the joint leaders Charley Hoffman and Filipino Rico Hoey.
“It’s nice to be able to get here, because I’m obviously in the desert anyways before that,” said Day when questioned on his lack of play in the event. So it’s nice to be able to get here, get some work done, kind of see where things are progressing heading into the start of the season.
“If you can play well here, great. That usually propels you into Torrey and Pebble, which is usually my schedule that I would play before I would play this one.
‘It’s nice to be able to come here where there’s no wind and it’s perfect weather all the time. The crowds are great, the tournament’s fantastic, and then getting into the West Coast, the meat of the West Coast Swing.
Day will play the more demanding Stadium Course on days three and four and is aware of the challenge it will offer.
“They’re saying that it’s playing around even par. That’s definitely a big change compared to the lasttwo days. So the game plan’s probably going to have to change a little bit, going to have to play a little bit more conservative to some of the pin locations.”
Cam Davis is the next best of the Australians in a share of 40th position.
